Members of the Southwark TSA

The Southwark Teaching School Alliance Members consists of a wide variety of partners drawn from across the education sector. The alliance was established in 2015 and are passionately committed to working towards a shared vision.

Lead Schools

Teaching School Headteachers

Crampton Primary School and Charles Dickens Primary School are the designated teaching schools and leads for the alliance.

• Cassie Buchanan is the headteacher of Charles Dickens Primary School
• Marian Kennedy is the headteacher of Crampton Primary School.

Strategic Board

The Teaching School will be led by a strategic board to ensure:

• compliance with National College and Department for Education requirements
• progress towards meeting all the Key Performance Indicators
• appropriate confidentiality is secured

The strategic board will be constituted as follows:

• Cassie Buchanan and Marian Kennedy, the headteachers from Charles Dickens Primary School and Crampton Primary School.
• Liz Robinson/ Nicola Noble, Filiz Scott/Alice Rees, Nick Tildesley and Evelyn Holdsworth alliance members who are strategic leads for one of the key performance areas
• Zoe Sumner, Teaching School Director (TSD)
• Kate Leech, Teaching School lead for Crampton Primary
• A representative from the wider alliance (i.e headteacher from a partner school) – to be appointed
• Bernadette Oates from London Borough of Southwark
• Vivienne Porritt, Director of Schools Partnerships, Institute of Education, University of London.

This group will have formal accountability for the work, impact and finances of the Teaching School Alliance and will provide summary reports annually for the governing bodies of all alliance schools.

The strategic board will meet half termly.

Strategic leads

Strategic Leads (SLs) – these are headteachers who are leading an area of the alliance’s work and whose schools are strategic partners.

In 2015/16, the strategic leads are:

• Cassie Buchanan ( Charles Dickens Primary School)
• Marian Kennedy ( Crampton Primary)
• Evelyn Holdsworth and Nick Tildesley ( John Donne Primary School)
• Liz Robinson/ Nicola Noble (Surrey Square Primary)
• Filiz Scott/ Alice Rees (Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy)

Strategic Partner schools

Strategic Partners of the Southwark Teaching School Alliance are the following schools and organisations who have a senior school leader sitting on the Executive Group of the Alliance. These leaders have responsibility for the strategic direction of the Alliance as well as acting as the decision making forum.

• Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy
• Cherry Gardens
• Dulwich College Senior and Junior school
• Institute of Education, University of London
• John Donne Primary School
• John Ruskin Primary School
• London Borough of Southwark
• Surrey Square Primary School
• Unicorn Theatre
• Evelina Hospital School

All partners will be invited to attend a termly meeting. Our Teaching School Partners are based primarily in Southwark and have responsibility for delivering some aspects of the Teaching School role.